2022 Program

Welcome to the 2022 CRANAplus Conference! The Welcome Reception is your first social opportunity to catch up with your interstate colleagues and sponsors and exhibitors of the Conference. The Welcome also provides a great opportunity to meet delegates who are attending the Conference for the first time.

Join us as we announce the Gayle Woodford Memorial Scholarship recipient, inaugurate new CRANAplus Fellows, and for the presentation of graduates from any award course by Flinders University.

Dr Norman Swan
Award-winning broadcaster, journalist and commentator 

Award-winning broadcaster, journalist and commentator Dr. Norman Swan is one of Australia’s best known health personalities. He hosts the Health Report and the Coronacast Podcast, reports for Four Corners, presents on ABC TV’s the Drum and ABC NewsRadio, co-founded Tonic Health Media, edits The Choice Health Reader, and corresponds for multiple international medical journals. Trained in Medicine and Paediatrics, Dr. Swan will be discussing social determinants of health, lessons learned from the pandemic, and the future of remote health.

Adjunct Prof Shelley Nowlan
Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner & Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Queensland Health

Adj. Prof. Shelley Nowlan, has over 35 years of experience as an RN. Widely recognised for her leadership and contributions to nursing, her professional and industry advice on nursing and midwifery matters across Queensland and rural Australia helps to drive improved access to rural health services and a sustainable workforce that can meet demand. She will be delivering the opening address.

Professor Roianne West
CEO of CATSINaM

Kalkadoon and Djaku-nde woman, Roianne West, CEO of CATSINaM, has led a life of extraordinary commitment to Indigenous Health. An RN who has also completed a Masters of Mental Health Nursing and a PhD developing a model of excellence for increasing Indigenous Nurses in Australia, Roianne was Australia’s first Nursing Director at a tertiary hospital with a dedicated portfolio of Indigenous health, Australia’s first Professor of Indigenous Health, and inaugural Dean of First Peoples Health at Griffith University.

Dr Simon Quilty
Medical Advisor, Purple House

Simon is a general physician who has worked in remote NT since 2001, commenced specialist services in Katherine Hospital in 2012, and has been working in Alice Springs Hospital since 2020 as a senior staff specialist. With a background in engineering and public health before commencing his medical career, he has unique perspectives on determinants of poor health outcomes in the communities he has worked across in northern Australia. He works with communities to conduct action research that identifies solutions to areas of inequity and broader threats, and his work is now focused entirely on understanding and mitigating the impact of heat and climate change in the tropical north of Australia.

Professor Sue Kildea
CRANAplus Fellow and Professor of Midwifery and Co-Director of the Molly Wardaguga Research Centre, CDU

Prof. Sue Kildea is an internationally recognised midwifery leader, known for her advocacy for rural and remote health and for bringing birthing services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait control. A RN/RM with clinical, management, policy, education and research experience, Prof. Kildea has been using research in the maternity field to drive social change since the mid-90s. She will be discussing birthing on country/midwifery services in remote Australia.

Dr Rosemary Wyber & Vicki Wade
Head of Strategy for END RHD, Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of WA, and PhD Student with the Office of the Chief Scientist at The George Institute for Global Health

Dr. Wyber’s PhD focus is on developing an ‘endgame’ for rheumatic heart disease in Australia. Dr. Wyber completed her medical degree in New Zealand, her Masters of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and her General Practice training in Aboriginal Community Controlled Clinics in the NT.

Join us at the 39th CRANAplus Gala Conference Dinner. The dinner is your chance to celebrate and catch-up with colleagues and friends, new and old.

The theme for the 2022 Gala Dinner is “ALL THAT SPARKLES“. We invite you to dress up or wear something that sparkles. With our focus on sustainability, we challenge you to not buy anything new. Rummage through your wardrobe or borrow from a friend and embrace the theme with your sparkling accessories! 

Inclusive for full registrations however bookings are essential for planning purposes.  Book during the registration process.  Additional tickets may be purchased by guests, exhibitors and day registrations.